The Environmental Lottery - A Very Big Picture View of History

According to jered diamond, urasians won the environmental lottery. This enabled them to establish civilization much earlier than any one else and to build more populous and powerful civilizations. The uneven distribution of food, livestock and disease that was the ultimate cause for why history unfolded so differently on different continents. It's a very big picture view of history. i think diamond deserved to win the poletzer prize for illuminating the extent to which variable environmental factors determine the destinies of human societies.